Lake Charles commercial., September 17, 1881, Image 1

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Commercial
VOL. 1.
LAKE CHARLES, CALCASIEU PARISH, LA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1881.
NO. 11
PltO FK 88 ION A L € A RI >8.
C 1.U5EIEL A. EDURNKT, ittow.v
T at Law, Lake Charles, La., office
formerlv occupied by Lon is Leveqwe, on
Court House Snare.
July 9, 3 881 .-3 r. ________
( 1 HORDE H. WELLS. Attorney at
T Law. Lake Charles, Calcasieu Par
iah, IjU. l 'nu '1 ices in Calcasieu, I aiucr
<ui and Vernon puris'liea, and in ( »range
and Jefferson counties, Texas.
July !>. 1881 .-dm.__________
I T A. GALLA L T iîHEE t Attorney at
' . Law, will practice in this and ad
joining parishes, and before the Supreme
Court, at Opelousas.
Sep., 3, 1881.-3 y .
A J. KEARNEY. District Attorney,
.. 14th Judicial District, practices m
the several parishes of the District.
Office, in Lake Charles, at the Haskell
House.
Office, in Leesburg, at bis residence.
July fl, 1881, ly.
J C MUNDAY. M. D..
Surgeon, Physician and Obstetrician.
C lONTINl'ES to practice bis profes
J sion and can be ciinsulted at bis
Drug Store, on Evan street, at all hours.
Lake Charles, La., July 8,3881.-1y.
Fit AN 14 M A I 8> K B ,
TOXNOK1AL AKTI8T,
l{,au »St., Lnke Charles.
H A Jit Cutting, shaving, Shaiupoon
ing and Hair Dyeing dune in the
latest stvies.
July D, l«81.-tf.
JEKESHAll o'lVMIiX. JAMES Cl-A IK.
OBRIEN a BLAIR,
Contractoi'K and Builders,
LAKE CHARLES, LA.
July 9. JMHl.-ly.
xmimfifi RLVEÎUÎK.
SHIP jB r ILDIX G
A 'S Si
REPAIRING,
CojitiTAetors, Arc.
On South Bu.uk of Luke Charles.
Slept. l.sSi.
Furniture Hepaired.
r TAVJXG permanently loeated in the
Jl town of Lake (diaries. I am pre
j„lied to repair all kinds of furniture, at
riliort notier, and oil reasonable lencs.
Thankful for past patt'onag", 3 solicit
i continuance of tiie saute.
Furniture rcvarni.'ihoa at the house ol
Sttlie owner. ,,
Shoo on Kirby street, near Eva n. inu
cliv building. C- H, JiELCL.
Aug. El, 1883. -ly.
1). B. LYONS.
1 \ KADER in Fresh and Pickled Beef,
I ) Polk, Mutton, west side of the
luhlie suuare, on the Lake shore.
FREE iifiUIVEEY to regular customers
Urouglioul flic town.
Thanks -for the liberal patronage hciv
ofore extended to him, lie soiledUt a cou
untauee (a the same.
July Si, 1881.-1 y .
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JU.I.IOSB IN IT 1-HOX't UHEMl'.l.E
JUST IK TIKE TO SAVE MONEY !
'1 hixt 1 Imre found the eight man in the
right jjlwe for flood and Cheap Wort!
F vo/n .want any work done ill the line
of Hooting, Culturing or repairing, or
good assortuiont of his own luanufae
red Tinware, or any old stoves repair
ti, You go to JOtS. VULTZX Tin Shop,
ek on E van street, bet w een Hill and
ve streets, opposite K. A. ( I a' laugher's
sidence. tSign of the Big Coffee Pot.
July i), 1881 -lv.
FELIX MAAAK%
—WITH—
Schmidt & Ziegler,
'HOLEHJLE GHOCEHH
—AND—
JMPOUTKHS,
•*, 19, 61 & 66 Tatars St„ 89, 41, 48 A 45
Tultau St., Kew Orleans.
July 9, 1881-ly.
8» 40 H id AJ U JL. MS
—OF THE—
7'LAMER NETTIE.
DM and after J ulv J, 18X1, the Steam
or Jyettie will make regular trips be
iden lake (.Hiarles, West Lake Charles
id liai? hid, viz :
res Ljike Okarlou for West Lake Charles,
t ....; ....... 8.16 A. Jl.
it ____!....... 1! .............1. Jl.
............ 1,30 ............ f. »I.
........... 6.16 ............ F. Jl.
Lea ret. Lake Charles for Bagdad.
............ .8.30 ............ a. ji.
• ....... 3 >'
-ves West Lake Charles for Lake Charles.
[....... 7 a. Jl.
I — i ....... 11.45 ............ a. Ji.
•» ........... 1.46 ............F. Jl.
............ tl ............ F. Jl.
Laaves Bagdad for Lake Charles.
... 1........9.45 ........ A. ».
t .....!. ...... 4.16 ............ F. ».
ti. H. NICHOLS, Muster.
July 13 1881 .-tif.
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New Orleans
CÏEIP d'il! STORE.
E. KAISER & CO.
—DEALERS IN
11RV GOODS,
CLOTHING,
BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAPS,
CROCKERY AXII TIN
WARE.
ILL KIM1S OF STIFLE GROCERIES.
We are also Agents for Hie
New Home Sewing Machine
Waltham Watches,
« Win or<1cr to niakq room
for our Fall /Stock, u:e will
i clone oat our Hummer .stock
! of good.s alten per cent, less
than oar former prices.
I sow IS ÏOI K TINS TO SEIT RE
BARLAINHÎ
Come and see for yourself!
LAKE CHAULES, LA.
Aug. 13, 18SL-tf.
HASKELL HOUSE,
Ryau Street, Lake Charles, La.
leuhcd the «hove named
House, J propose to run it iu first
the Restaurent plan, uud no exertion
will he considered too great, to lender
j 1 AVJNt
J 1 House, 3 propose to p
class style. The table will he kept on
guests comfortable.
THOS. R. REYNOLDS,
nug 20, '81.-tf.
Jaissee.
Referri ng to the a bove, in retiring front
the Hotel, 1 desire to return my thanks
to those who have so liberally patruv
isod me iu the past, uud.confidently re
commend uiv friends to iuy successor,
knowing that he will give ample satis
taetiou, as a caterer to the traveling
public. \Y. H. it AsKKLL.
Nt, Louis Type Foundry,
115 & 117 Fine St„
ntAjmas jx
Efinding and Writing Eager*,Card*
and Card Hoard, Jay*,
Envelope*,
l-mt,lag luks, Bronzes, te,
Trogramme Cards, Wedding KuvefoipeB,
Wedding Papers, <£c.
J «l y 9,1881.
M. J. ROSTEET,
—DEALER IN
13 H Y GOODS
CLOTHING, BOOTS ANI)
SHOES, HATS AND
CA PS.
GROCERIES,
—AND—
Lake Chur
July 9, 18SI.-ly.
II. I). NIX
GENERAL DEALER,
\ix's Ferry, Cnleiixh
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Hiver, Im.
T U A \ii const ant iy on baud a hit
. and varied assortment of
STALLE AN It FANCY PHY
OttOPS, ANP HEAPY
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M.v stock of Boots* Mme» and Hats, is .
uot excelled b.v aay in the cuwtry.
My att.M'k of Grocerix** iw hm uouijHoU*
us ru n lx-, ami being rmik'nislicd weekly.
From my long experience m meivbiiij
Jilting in this parish, 1 Biel confident of
being idrle to satisfy all who will ilo me
the favor to giye me a cull. j
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First class, hand wade
CYPRESS SHINGLES,
always ou band, in any ij inimitiés.
I'nnnpt and assiduous attention to the
F F U K Y ,
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KÄdÖS
and fur tutting care uf tiicm, having just
completed a
LARGE I'AJiTI 'HE,
in which ure plenty of grans, wate
shade.
Highest imirket price paid for
Cotton, Wool «ont Hides.
(Ü ve me a eali. H. 1) KIN.
Aug. 13, i8W.-4y.
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Criticisms from Louisville!
[N. O. Democrat.]
Under the caption of "Some
Newspapers," the Louisville Even
ing Post has a good deal to say
about New Orleans and its press.
Here is a specimen:
"The newspapers of that delectable
city of creoles and bananas and lottery
shops are the most peculiar products of
•Southern life. One (lay the Picayune
comes out in four meagre pages, like a
man dressed in his underclothes, or, at
best, a linen duster and duck trousers ;
another day it lias l(i pages of line mat
ter and wears, us it were, all ulster.
The other papers have much the same
habit. We would not he at all astonish
ed to find, any morning,that the "Pic.",
or the Democrat, or the Times, had not
lieeu issued because the foreman want
cd a holiday, or the editor-in-chief was
off on a junketing tour. Every once in
a while they wake up and have the con
foundedest row among them that was
ever heard of, and we half "lisped that
no man is eligible for the position ol ed
itor <lown there unless he 1ms had one
of his ears chawed off, or is at least
wiling to have itehawedoff. Oh, there's
! plenty of energy doi.u there ! and plenty
of brains, too."
We pass over some remarks
more or less complimentary to the
Democrat in order to devote more
time to tlie spectacle of a Louis ville
paper reproaching New Orleans
for harboring creoles, bananas
and lottery shops. There is some
excuse in ignorance for the first
counts in the accusations, but
there is nothing but unadulterated
insolence in Louisville's saying a
word on the subject of lotteries,
j That city lias for years been lioto
j rions as tiie domicile of some of
I tiie most flagrant swindles that
I have ever disgraced the country.
As for the creoles, Louisville would
make the best investment in its
whole career by introducing some
of them to teach the people the
arts of life, polish of manner and
love of culture. The Post must
not forget that we see a great deal
I of representative Louisville socie
ty, and, whilst we have no unfa
j vorable comment to make,
ijuite understand that an infusion
of creole taste and refinement into
Louisville would flit a void there
w'liicli does not aehe only because
! it is unrecognized at home.
; But thousands of intelligent peo
pie in every part of the country are
acquainted with both New Orleans
and Louisville andean judge be
! tween the two. Louisville is a
! bumptious, self-satisfied, boastful
little place—not traveled enough
owu deficiencies, and
'.not sensible enough to perceive
the bad taste of immodesty. Coin
pared with New Orleans it will cut
but a sorry figure before any ini
i partial tribunal—not only as re
. ^,,. de commerce, and its out
■ , ,
wai'd ihauitvtitiitioutè, but HH ro
j, ar ,j g jf 8 domestic life, the arts of
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home, the culture, the taste and
.. I.,.,,...!:.,,, a fU H nennle
j ' ;lle breeding or Its people.
] The Post, however, is not a fair
j representation of Louisville jour
nalisui; it is puny and unterprisiug
and, possibly, envious.
,, " * *
It appears to be a growing ini
pression in New York that the
democrat* think of bringing for
ward, as their next candidate for
governor, Mr. Samuel ,1. Tilden,
and thus of repeating the tactics,
which gave them the presidency
in 1.870 by tiie popular vote, but
! which was nullified by tiie count
iug in of Mr. Hayes. One good
point has of late been made by the
democracy. It is that, foilowiug
the attempt upon President Car
field its conduct, as admitted by ail,
has been dignified and patriotic
Hy this act they have exhibited
their most st riking proof that they
are once more a national party.
This has certainly largely increased
their popularity|<t'kieago News,
An Iowa woman ate two large
watermelons, and her last words
to her husband were: "Dear John,
teach the children to not be as Jag
a fool as their mother was."
A Wonderful Spring.
A Story Which Should be Read by
Every Tramp in the Country,
An Arkansas paper publishes
the following communication from
Witherspoon, in that State: We
are creditably informed that fif
teen miles north-east of here, on
Greasy Creek, one of the greatest
and most miraculous springs on
record has recently been discov
ered. We have not been to see it,
but our informant, a good citizen
and a Baptist preacher of celebri
ty, tells us what he saw. Parson
John li. Yeatfs was at the spring
last week; and he says the spring
flows from a mountain about 400
feet high, comes out of the ground
about one hundred feet from the
top of the mountain on the nort h
side, and flows at the rate of about
forty gallons per minute, and it is
the color of apple elder, and tastes
just like apple-brandy and lias the
same effect. Those under tiie in
fluence of the water are perfectly
ecstatic and hugging and loving
everything they meet, fie says :
"1 never saw the like; children and
boys and girls hugging and kissing
every one they met. Old ipen and.
women, young men and young la
dies, embracing each other by bug
ging and kissing. I met an old
white-haired man and woman—1
suppose about eighty years old—
and they were hopping and skip
ping like lambs. I saw hundreds
lying around the spring so drunk
that they could not stand up, and
they were lying and laughing and
trying to slap their hands. The
people call them the "Millennium
Springs."
Investments for the South,
[Clpulcstiin News and Courier.]
The Southern people have every
reason to lie encouraged in their
struggle onward and upward, liv
ely dollar'iuvested hereby North
ern men rips a stitch out of the
j "bloody shirt," and the Northern
i people, other considerations apart,
j will not permit the politicians, any
, n,,,,. w than tiie Southern people
j will, to take aline which affects
j injuriously their own interests,
'flic South lias been virtually an
| p,(tried arena for enterprise and
; adventure. There are opportuni
|j ( , s which can no longer be
found (u New England or tlic Mid
| ( jj e states, tt |,il which, taking into
j iiC eouiit the social intercourse, the
moans of education and the cfiesp
; , ieB8 0 f transportation cannot lie
anrpassed in the richest of the vir
giii lands iu the West. Tiie men,
too, who come in witli the North
ern capital will stir up the South
ern people, quicken the course of
trade and encourage the adoption
of improved methods in every de
partment of industry, There is
hardly any limit to the possibilities
-1 «^Southern development. Capital,
| JaDor und popular education will
j make the South the garden spot
! of the Union.
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i It is proposed in Iowa to pre
j sent a testimonial to Rate Shelly,
the brave Irish giff who saved a
passenger train from going through
a broken bridge iu a storm. One
enthusiastic man advises that the
commercial travelers of the coiin
; try take it into their own bauds
and each contribute $1 to the fund.
Kate's huher, it is related lost his
life in the service of the Nori li
western Railway Company some
years ago; her brother was drown
ed two seasons since, and the
family now consists of Kate, who
is 15 or Iff years of age, lier moth
| er, a woman in poor health, and
two younger children of ft and 9
years respectively,
Ladies with small mouths are In
fa vor m the fcouth this season, ana
; it is feared that not a persimmon
will be left on the trees to ripen
Detroit Free Press.
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Rro. Gardner's Lime-Kiln Club.
"I hold hear, in my ban'," began
Brother Gardner, as the thermom
eter showed the usual 120 degree»
in the vicinity of the stove; "a let
ter from Philadelphia axin' me if I
believe vvid do Rev. Jasper, of
Richmond, dat de sun do movef
Sartin I do. I know de white
folks claim dat it am do airth
which am u movin', while de sqn
stands still, but right dar' we split.
.1 osliua was about, as nigh bein' au
angel as any white man will eher
git, an' when he ordered de snn to
stau' still he knew What ho was
talkin' 'bout. It would have been
just as easy fur him to have com
manded de airth to s*tan' still,
but lie did't do it. If Joshua didn't
know his hizness de reft of as
might as well hang up.
"An' now, you cull'd folkses.
min' what I'zogwineto say. Doan'
let de 'stronomy bizness keep you
awake nights. De sun am up dar
by day, ah' de moon an' stars am
up dar by night. De Lawd put de
sau dar to thaw de ice off de back
doali-step, makes encumbers grow
au' fotch up do grass an' de co'u.
It didn't do any vviihs when astroii"
oiny was unknown, an' it wouldn't
do any better if chary family in the
kentry had »teleseope IV hundred
feet long. De moon was hung up
dar dat folks might see to move by
night when do rent got too high;
dat lost cows could seo to fin' dar
way home; dat folks could see to
chop wood and emptybar'ls of ash
es on do street; dat wiminin coinin'
home from pray'r ineetin' could a
void de nail-heads stickin' up iu
de planks, an' far varus oddarrea
huiih. You jist, take de sua an ho
ihm, an' de moon as you Unfit, an'
de less you worry 'bout 'em de mo'
meat an' inters you'll have in do
winter. De poorest cufl'il man 1
eher k no wed was an ole liluck
man down in VYirginny who was
always wonderin' ifdey had a rég
lai 1 lock on de gates of Heaven, or
only a latch-si ting. While hi« nay
burs war plaidiV he was wonder
in'; while dey war' hoju' lie was
theorizing; while dey was reapin'
lie was ragged an' hungry. Let
the sun move er stau' still—let
de moon be made of old silver or
green cheese—let de stars be ten
miles or 10,000,000 miles away—
keep do whitewash brush gwiue
au' de buck-Naw iu good order au'
you'll be all right.
Only a Printrr.
The following tribute to the no
ble preservative art we find in a
cotemporary, and wo commend its
strong contrast to the intelligent
reader. "He was only a printer,"
Kuril was the sneering remark of
a leader of aristocracy. Who was
the Karl of Btuuliopn! He waaon
ly a printer. WJui is Prince
Frederick William—marriedto the
Princess Royal of England! lie,
too, was only a printer. Who was
William Gaxtou, the father of lit
erature* He was only a printer.
Win» wereG. P. Morris, N. P. Wil
lis, Gales, 0. Richardson, Hor
ace Grecly, IftiyardTylof, Hilaries
Dickens, Thiers, Jorold, George
D. Prontiee, and Kmiators Dix,
Cameron, a »4 Niles! They,, loo,
were printers.- What was Benjamin
Franklin! He also, was a printer.
Every one eaunot be a printer—
brains ajm necessary,__
After all the talk of scholars
there are but two sorts of govern
ment: One where men show their
teetli at each other, and one where
men show their tongues aud lick
the feet of Hie strongest.
We présuma that A rseue Iloas
sage referred to talk when he said:
"Women always give more than
they receive."
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'To win, work and wait—but
work a good deal more titan you
i wait.